Chapter Ninety-Four: The Establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty
So, everyone immediately greeted Zhao Weiming one by one. For a while, uncles, nephews, ancestors, and grandchildren talked to each other, and the haze of being captured seemed to be diluted a lot immediately. The joy of the rest of the life after the catastrophe is accompanied by the kindness of the same blood, and the scene is a happy family scene!
When I was young, the banquet was prepared, and when it came to the royal relatives who died in the Jingkang disaster, everyone was hastily done with a heavy heart. A few days later, just as everyone was about to return to Beijing before making plans, the person who inquired first brought a depressing news: In the current imperial court, Zhang Bangchang had usurped the throne and became emperor! This Zhang Bangchang greeted the Jin people when he was exiled to the north before, and while bowing his knees to the Jin people's servile face, he spared no effort to help them mutilate the captured monarchs and ministers; he completely forgot his identity as a Song minister, and acted like a lackey of the Jin people! After making people investigate, Zhang Bangchang really got the help of the Jin people when he ascended the throne! After confirming Zhang Bangchang's identity as a spy of the Jin people, a cruel reality was immediately placed in front of everyone: The imperial court could no longer go back, so he could only find another way out.
A few months later, Zhao Gou, with the support of a group of royal family relatives and a group of former ministers of the Song Dynasty, assumed the throne as emperor in Yingtianfu and rebuilt the Song Dynasty; the people of the time called it 'Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty'.
But when it was time to reward the meritorious heroes, everyone found out: Zhao Weiming, the king of Yi who had made great contributions this time, was nowhere to be found! When he could not be found, Zhao Gou had to order people to build a 'Chengtian Temple' in the imperial city, with a statue of Zhao Weiming built-in, and he was enshrined as the 'Emperor of the Nine Heavens of the Mixed Yuan Dynasty', so that he could always lead hundreds of civil and military officials to come to pay respects.
After the establishment of the capital in the south, although the Song Dynasty gradually regained its former strength and prosperity after several decades of measures such as reorganizing the peasants and merchants and enriching the army, the country was in a thriving state! However, the fly in the ointment was that due to the devastation suffered in the Jin State in those years, Zhao Gou's body was actually disabled, and his heirs were never prosperous. It wasn't until he was in his fifties that the concubine gave birth to a son. Although Zhao Gou loved and cherished him in every way, he didn't have to take a holiday, and soon after, this son also died early. Looking at the huge country and facing the situation of lack of successors, Zhao Gou fell into deep worry......
In desperation, he had no choice but to set his sights on the royal family, hoping to find a prince from among his descendants who could inherit the Great Song Dynasty in the future. But after some searching, the result made him even more depressed: most of the descendants of the royal family of Taizong had been brutally killed when they were taken to the 'Five Kingdoms City' by the Jin people, and none of the remaining people were up to the task. When he was helpless, someone reported that there was still a royal child named 'Bo Brown' in the Taizu lineage. This son is not only brilliant, but also young and old, and quite a gentleman.
Seeing that there seemed to be no other way to think of it, Zhao Gou had to reluctantly agree to the summons. After Xuanlai gave it a try, he saw that he was really quick to think and act steadily; His great-grandfather was Zhao Weiming, the king of Yi who had been looking for many years in the imperial court, and he was overjoyed, so he immediately adopted him as his adopted son and gave him the name Wei. Later, he remembered that the Grand Duke Taizu was selfless, but he had a son who passed on the throne to his younger brother. Then the idea of passing the throne to the descendants of Taizu came about;
Soon after, Zhao Bozhang was renamed Zhao Yan and canonized as the crown prince. After a few more years, Zhao Gou retired to Emperor Taishang, and Zhao Yan succeeded to the throne as Song Xiaozong. So far, the emperor of the Song Dynasty has finally returned to the Taizu lineage after more than 100 years of Taizong's lineage. And the Taizong lineage that created the mystery of the 'axe and candle shadow' has almost withered after the 'Jingkang difficulty'.
It is exactly what happened to the children of the Zhao family who suffered in the 'Jingkang Difficulty' in the Jin Kingdom, but how could it not be a copy of the Later Shu and Southern Tang Dynasty that were destroyed by the Zhao Kuangyin brothers? This is exactly the "Heavenly Principle is clear, and the retribution is not happy", "There are gods in the three feet above the head, and the people of the world should suppress evil and promote good; and if they do evil, they will be rewarded!" and he muttered to Zhao Weiming, who woke up in the dream of the Four Seasons Cave, again.